The recent string of earthquakes are a reminder that we need to be prepared for “The Big One.” ...

Earthquakes may feel like a rare occurrence, especially in Maine, but they happen around the world every day. Last week, that reality was on full display when two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela ...

Tectonic plates are, like most of us, under a lot of stress and are always in motion. But they move slowly, and the exact moment when the stress between them will be released is uncertain. While ...

There has been a spate of small earthquakes in Maharashtra over the last fortnight; seismologists call this pattern of quakes ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

Large earthquakes can dramatically reshape mountain landscapes by triggering thousands of landslides and rapidly accelerating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could ...

Emergency services work at the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake, in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela on Wednesday night declared a state of emergency after two powerful earthquakes - ...

Japan is well known for its large earthquakes, but not all regions show the same patterns of earthquake activity. One way to understand which places tend to experience large or small earthquakes is ...

Locals and officials in Colombia have begun a massive search and rescue effort to find survivors of a powerful earthquake ...